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death of my ever- desired friend Doctor Donne, 

 Dean of St Paul's." Like his father, King gained 

 great celebrity by his preaching. He was a Low 

 Churchman. He died at Chichester and was 

 buried there, where there is a monument to his 

 memory. There is a portrait of King at Christ 

 Church College, Oxford. 



ABRAHAM MARKLAND 



(1645-1728). 

 "We cannot all be Masters." — Shakespeare. 



He was a son of Michael Markland, a druggist, 

 and was born in London. After being sent to 

 Merchant Taylors' School, he proceeded to St 

 John's College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow 

 in 1662, and was ordained, and successively held 

 various livings in Hampshire, becoming a prebend 

 of Winchester, and, in the year 1692, D.D. In 

 1694 he was appointed Master of St Cross 

 Hospital, Winchester, which post he held till 

 his death. He was married twice and had issue — 

 one child by each wife. He pubHshed some poems 

 and sermons. He was one of the three witnesses 

 to the will of Walton. James Heywood Markland, 

 the learned antiquary, who died in 1864, was one 

 of his descendants, and published a Life of 

 Bishop Ken. 



